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parser

pars·er [ prssər ] (plural pars·ers)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. software for analyzing language: a program that parses computer input. The parser determines how a sentence can be constructed from the grammar of the language, producing a tree parse tree about the statement as the output.

2. analyzer: somebody or something that analyzes something into its component parts

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